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Brazil - software developers exempted from industrial products tax

The Brazilian IRS's 9th Regional Office (which comprises the states of Parana and Santa Catarina) has recently decided that software developers and distributors are exempt from the Industrial Products Tax ("IPI"). According to the decision, a software is an intellectual work and, therefore, its creation and electronic distribution do not rely on an industrialized process (which would trigger the application of the IPI).

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